Lyell Quotes
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Lyell Quotes & Sayings
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Lyell became something of a celebrity - the Steven Pinker of his generation - and
— Elizabeth Kolbert
Lyell and Murchison go travelling
— Michael J. Benton
It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.
— George Poulett Scrope
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
— Charles Lyell
If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I just try to walk the walk. I try to live every day with the utmost honesty and integrity to myself and the people around me.
— Michael Skolnik
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.
— John Cusack
The present is the key to the past
— Charles Lyell
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
— Charles Lyell
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
— Charles Lyell
Geology is intimately related to almost all the physical sciences, as history is to the moral. An
— Charles Lyell
*Go cow-tipping.* Close enough to donkey-napping.
— Wendy Wunder